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Architecture critic Paul Goldberger analyzes the evolution of baseball stadiums and celebrates their essential connection to cities in "Ballpark: Baseball in the American City."
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A few graphs provide insights into factors that affect the amount of motor vehicle travel in a community, and how driving can be reduced.
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The Democratic Party will hold a two-day debate event, starting tonight. It's time to brush up on the positions of the leading candidates on policies and politics relate to housing, climate change, and infrastructure.
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The applications for 3D technology in the field of planning are multiplying and diversifying.
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After growing in the first half of the decade, some cities might be losing population. Is this because of the pace of immigration has slowed?
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The company that best understands what drives city residents’ decisions is best suited to untangle persistent urban problems.
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Erick Guerra of the University of Pennsylvania writes about a recent article he co-authored in the Journal of Planning Education and Research
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These examples illustrate how biased planning favors longer-distance, motorized travel over shorter, active, affordable, energy efficient, less polluting, and healthier travel options, and sprawl over compact infill development. It's time for reform.
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Planetizen needs your input in creating the definitive list of mobile apps for professional, student, academic, or citizen planners.
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Retrofitting suburbia may be a challenge in a small town with high birth rates.
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Many current planning practices reinforce a cycle of increased automobile use, more automobile-oriented community redevelopment, and reduced mobility options. There are good reasons to break this pattern.
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New Urbanism was in part born of the criticisms of 20th century planning principles popularized by Jane Jacobs, but Jacobs infamously derided the new school of thought.
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An interview with Fort Worth Planning and Development Director Randle Harwood on the planning practices and ideas driving the future of one of the nation's fastest growing cities.
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The U.S. Census released new population and housing units estimates for cities today. Phoenix added more residents between July 2017 and July 2018 than any city in the country.
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Government's pro-sprawl and anti-density policies often create problems that justify more of the same.
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Mahbubur Meenar of Rowan University writes about a recent article he co-authored in the Journal of Planning Education and Research
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It's a popularity contest, sure, but it's our popularity contest.
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The Urban Nexus is an approach to sustainability that seeks to integrate sectors and silos int he design and development process.
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The implementation of 5G Internet infrastructure raises fundamental questions about how private companies operate in the public realm. Don't expect easy answers.
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The study of gentrification took center stage at the recent conference of the Urban Affairs Association. It's up to planners to put all of that research to good use.
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After 12 days of walking the Portuguese Camino, the importance of many urban planning and development debates—from balanced growth to banning cars—became abundantly clear.
